The problem is the Suns Organization and players have ZERO urgency. They’re taking an extra week off for injury tweak precautions, shutting players down over “soreness”, etc etc. They’re taking the playoffs for granted. Nothing would be funnier than them finishing 11th or getting bounced in the playin.
Erik is so talented man Wanted to give him his flowers bc other ppl in this comment section is blinded by nostalgia and not liking change But they won't have to complain to long, Erik will be with a huge Sports Media Corporation along his Journey. Also remember guys its the internet in almost 2025. The "villian" is much easier to market in Sports Media. U can keep disliking him but it will only push and elevate him even more personally and definitely career wise lol
3:58 Why isn’t this more obvious?? It AIN’T the coach. It AIN’T injuries/luck. It AIN’T one person/player’s fault. It is COMPOSITION & CHEMISTRY. First & foremost, Suns NEED an ENFORCER. An athletic BIG that boxes out on EVERY play, commits to rebounding on both ends, throws weight, DUNKS, and makes it his mission to own the paint. A marquee BIG might require a trade to include Bradley, Devon, Nurk, Grayson -or all 4. That profile BIG doesn’t grow on trees, but Suns do have trade leverage to get what they need. Also - shooting 3’s as a primary go-to strategy is BORING, volatile, and proving to be highly ineffective. GO TO THE RIM, OWN THE PAINT, REBOUND ON EVERY PLAY, STOP BEING LAZY!!!
If you don’t back up Nurk you are not a real Suns fan. Sometimes sh*t happens and Nurk got 2 starters ejected and your team did not back you up. This is a sign that this team is not united
Facts like he took out 2 starters while the suns couldn't take advantage. Then again suns folded once again . Suns need another player to stand up. At this point we need Pat Bev
@prettyboyswa914 Idk about that Suns defense has been actually pretty good these past few games their offense though has been absolutely tragic to many iso possessions (Will never understand why they signed Tyus and Monte just to barley have them bring the damn ball up) ans too many turnovers (again actually putting the ball in a pg hands and the team not just standing around would help). I don't think signing any players or trading anyone is gonna save this team, only options left is to change up the rotation or just blow it up cause unless they get a miracle and Beal becomes a semblance of the player he was suppose to be and KD keeps being KD it's over after this season
All this hate Erik is getting is completely unwarranted. He is one of the most talented people I’ve seen in sports media in a long time. He has the passion and knowledge that a lot of people are missing. Sure he’s loud, but I think it’s a breath of fresh air seeing someone be so enthusiastic about basketball like he is. Don’t listen to these idiots in the comments Erik, you’re doing great and I know you’re gonna go on to do big things. 🤘🏼
Is not fun because there are not a lot of fast breaks which are a result of defensive play and this team doesn’t put in the effort consistently on that end of the floor. Team missed GA 3pt % this game
I'm seeing a lot of hate toward Erik, and it's completely untrue what most of you are saying. Erik is a genuine dude who treated me well during college. He is doing his best.
It’s not hate, he’s just not ready for a position like this. He seems very nice and id probably like him as a friend but we’re saying him as a host is not good at this point.
I would rather just bin Beal even if we don’t get anything in return, when book comes back he can have his traditional role as the sg back and not sit there trying to get others in involved. He’s completely lost the young killer instinct he once had and it’s heart breaking, we never needed another scorer we just needed some good athletic rebounders and some high energy players Beal never fit this squad
How times have changed! We spent years blaming a former center for everything wrong. We wanted change because we didn’t win a championship in two years after being hot trash for years!! I don’t feel bad for KD… look what happened in Brooklyn. This isn’t a “ team “ something is broken in the looker room and can’t blame DA/vogel This isn’t a fun team because the roster keeps flipping so we can’t relate like we did in the past. Look the energy and excitement during that Valley run
Agreed. His energy is off putting af. I thought maybe I was a hater, but I could feel it even just listening to the podcast. He ruins it for me, even when Lindsey was hosting. Now without her, it’s just unwatchable
I will take the opportunity to take a shot at my local Phoenix Suns team. I do not condone violence and would like to look at this from a different vantage point. TEAM. This is microcosm of what's been happening since the Suns broke up the 2021 WCF Team. Since then it has been a bunch of individuals playing along side an alleged BIG3. Back in the day saying you are a TEAM actually meant something. Notice in the brief altercation, there were 5 Suns Players on the floor and only ONE (Bradley Beal) stepped up to the plate and tried to protect his teammate while KD (OUR FEARLES LEADER) was no where in the picture, even Dunn [OUR ROOKIE] made an attempt to separate the MAYHEM. Remember the shoving match between Grant Williams and KD, when Grant Williams played for the Mavericks, Nurk was right there in the mix and protected KD from the troubles. Why should it be any different when the shoe is on the other foot? This team is a joke and as much as I can appreciate KD as a INDVIDUAL PLAYER, he is not a TEAM FIRST Superstar. Can I digress, even the game we watch is so disheartening to where the PG can't do his job. Anyone can bring the ball down the court, but after that give it to "TurnOver-KD" and go stand in a corner and watch. That has to suck as a professional player and teammate, because it sucks to watch as a life-tong fan. You know when you have seen good basketball, and this generation of Suns ball reminds me of "The Little Rascals". Break up the "LITTLE3" and at this rate they each should have decent trade value.. I didn't want to say it, but I have no choice "START OVER THRU THE DRAFT" NO MORE SUPER TEAMS, THEY ONLY WORK WHEN YOU HAVE A FEARLESS LEADER LIKE DRAYMOND GREEN KEEPING EVERYONE IN CHECK and build from within like OKC, you know who they are, the # 1 team in the west.
Well the suns are at an opportune time to change everything causing their problems. Get rid of bud and go get Mike Brown. This teams offense is all on him and him alone. Spreading the floor and jacking up 3s isn't doing it anymore. Nobody wants to watch a team shoot a 38 percent shot all the time. It's so dreadfully boring and monotonous that the fans are sick of this offense and they're sick of watching this team. To put things in perspective I'm going to copy a story that Danny Ainge told about his first year in Boston that comes to my mind. “I came in the middle of the season with a really good team, so I wasn’t playing very much, and I shot the ball miserably that year,” he said. Ainge reflected on that rookie season and spoke about just how tough it was to break in and just how tough Fitch was. “To put it in perspective, I remember coming off screens, and like I said, I could get shots with those guys setting screens,” Ainge said. “The coach pulls me aside, Bill Fitch, and he says, ‘What do you expect to make on that shot?’ “I go, I don’t know, 52 percent. “He goes, ‘What does he shoot?’ Points to Larry. I go, 60. ‘What does he shoot?’ He points to McHale. Sixty. It’s like, do you get my point? We don’t need 52-percent shots coming off down screens. The teams that Bird had when he played for the Celtics revived a dying league and most of their offense came from shooting 60 percent shots with him McHale and Parish. I loved those teams much more than my own home team the Utah Jazz because it was fun to watch those guys shoot at such a high percentage. Buds offense is horrible because it relies on spreading the floor and shooting a 38 percent shot. Nobody wants to watch this offense anymore. How many friends do i have who are sick of watching this team because they miss most of their low percentage shots. If Bud were a good coach he would have a varied offense relying on mid range, pick and roll and cutters and then the 3 point shot as a last option. Not spread the floor and shoot 3s with nothing else except charging the lane and getting stuffed and expecting a foul. That is ugly heinous shit that nobody wants to watch. Also the guys who can get their own shots and who are mid range assassins in Booker and Durant are not being set up for success with easy shots. These guys are having to work hard to get their own mid range shots. While it is beautiful to see how they can get their own shots and make them sometimes that isn't what we brought in Tyus Jones for. We brought in Tyus to get them easy shots they wouldn't have to work for that they weren't getting last year. Tyus ain't setting these guys up because Bud's shitty offense doesn't give Tyus anything to work with in this regard and we're back to shoot 3s and the ISO shit we had going on last year. What kills me is that it seems that the suns organization has told this podcast to not talk about the coach being the problem that he clearly is because ishbia paid this guy too much money before proving himself and now he doesn't want to lose all this money he spent in coaches. Espo keeps saying we got another coach so that's not the problem. No espo people are not so stupid to swallow your logic here. Yes things have not changed because the owner fired a terrible coach last year and replaced him with another horrendous coach this year. You're not fooling anyone espo . Right now it's the perfect time to get rid of this trash of a coach and go out and get Mike Brown. And if ishbia isn't willing to lose the absolute stupid money he paid this clown then he better be ready to lose Durant and Booker after this season. Let him see how holding onto that stupid coach who only played high school basketball and wasn't even a star there screws up his bonafide players who deserve to be paid.
You’re putting this on KD when he literally is the only one that has showed up for the most part of the season. KD got hurt and they get couldn’t win one game, not 1.
@ Not putting anything on KD he’s been probly the main reason for that team winning when he plays. I’m just saying the guy isn’t winning any championships unless he chose that ready made dynasty that would have still won even if KD wasn’t there. Curry Klay and Draymond would have 4 rings if KD never joined.
How times have changed! We spent years blaming a former center for everything wrong. We wanted change because we didn’t win a championship in two years after being hot trash for years!! I don’t feel bad for KD… look what happened in Brooklyn. This isn’t a “ team “ something is broken in the looker room and can’t blame DA/vogel This isn’t a fun team because the roster keeps flipping so we can’t relate like we did in the past. Look the energy and excitement during that Valley run
When Bradley Beal gets outscored by maxi kleber who before tonight only scored 33 points all season I knew this game was gonna be a problem.
Espo and Stephen are chill with the right lineup, but this other dude ain’t it man. Lindsey and Gerald are the true core of this show.
The problem is the Suns Organization and players have ZERO urgency. They’re taking an extra week off for injury tweak precautions, shutting players down over “soreness”, etc etc. They’re taking the playoffs for granted. Nothing would be funnier than them finishing 11th or getting bounced in the playin.
Need to trade nurk. Brad is the inconsistent piece. Scoring only 11 tonight was the difference in this game when you lose by only 9.
Brad the most overhyped and overpaid NBA player
Erik is so talented man
Wanted to give him his flowers bc other ppl in this comment section is blinded by nostalgia and not liking change
But they won't have to complain to long, Erik will be with a huge Sports Media Corporation along his Journey. Also remember guys its the internet in almost 2025. The "villian" is much easier to market in Sports Media. U can keep disliking him but it will only push and elevate him even more personally and definitely career wise lol
Erik fan boy!
@Kurisutofa22 nah just a fan boy of the truth.......
God Bless You🙂
I’m really gonna miss when Lindsey says “Hit that thumbs up buh-in.” Lol
There’s two t’s in the word button Lindsey
Wait .. what happened to Lindsey? Did she take a leave or she left the show ?
She was fired @@KayDelaverro
Lindsey was the goat of this podcast
3:58 Why isn’t this more obvious?? It AIN’T the coach. It AIN’T injuries/luck. It AIN’T one person/player’s fault. It is COMPOSITION & CHEMISTRY. First & foremost, Suns NEED an ENFORCER. An athletic BIG that boxes out on EVERY play, commits to rebounding on both ends, throws weight, DUNKS, and makes it his mission to own the paint.
A marquee BIG might require a trade to include Bradley, Devon, Nurk, Grayson -or all 4. That profile BIG doesn’t grow on trees, but Suns do have trade leverage to get what they need. Also - shooting 3’s as a primary go-to strategy is BORING, volatile, and proving to be highly ineffective. GO TO THE RIM, OWN THE PAINT, REBOUND ON EVERY PLAY, STOP BEING LAZY!!!
If you don’t back up Nurk you are not a real Suns fan. Sometimes sh*t happens and Nurk got 2 starters ejected and your team did not back you up. This is a sign that this team is not united
Suns fans for you when Nurk does have a really good game or Plumlee and Oso make relatively the same mistakes as him people not saying nothing
Facts like he took out 2 starters while the suns couldn't take advantage. Then again suns folded once again . Suns need another player to stand up. At this point we need Pat Bev
@prettyboyswa914 Idk about that Suns defense has been actually pretty good these past few games their offense though has been absolutely tragic to many iso possessions (Will never understand why they signed Tyus and Monte just to barley have them bring the damn ball up) ans too many turnovers (again actually putting the ball in a pg hands and the team not just standing around would help). I don't think signing any players or trading anyone is gonna save this team, only options left is to change up the rotation or just blow it up cause unless they get a miracle and Beal becomes a semblance of the player he was suppose to be and KD keeps being KD it's over after this season
Turn dude on the rights mic down 😂
All this hate Erik is getting is completely unwarranted. He is one of the most talented people I’ve seen in sports media in a long time.
He has the passion and knowledge that a lot of people are missing. Sure he’s loud, but I think it’s a breath of fresh air seeing someone be so enthusiastic about basketball like he is.
Don’t listen to these idiots in the comments Erik, you’re doing great and I know you’re gonna go on to do big things. 🤘🏼
This team is cooked just like this show without the og crew.
turn that dude mic down dang
Is not fun because there are not a lot of fast breaks which are a result of defensive play and this team doesn’t put in the effort consistently on that end of the floor. Team missed GA 3pt % this game
I'm seeing a lot of hate toward Erik, and it's completely untrue what most of you are saying. Erik is a genuine dude who treated me well during college. He is doing his best.
It’s not hate, he’s just not ready for a position like this. He seems very nice and id probably like him as a friend but we’re saying him as a host is not good at this point.
Steven the new guy is really cool I like his vibe on here
No offense I don’t like the host either not too much.. where is the girl?
the right one is sooo annoying! Girl was fired, dont know why.
I would rather just bin Beal even if we don’t get anything in return, when book comes back he can have his traditional role as the sg back and not sit there trying to get others in involved. He’s completely lost the young killer instinct he once had and it’s heart breaking, we never needed another scorer we just needed some good athletic rebounders and some high energy players Beal never fit this squad
they need to solve this problem around Booker or they will lose him. Hes 28 and doesnt have time to wait on the team.
Steven is OK...but you can't understand him
How times have changed! We spent years blaming a former center for everything wrong. We wanted change because we didn’t win a championship in two years after being hot trash for years!!
I don’t feel bad for KD… look what happened in Brooklyn.
This isn’t a “ team “ something is broken in the looker room and can’t blame DA/vogel
This isn’t a fun team because the roster keeps flipping so we can’t relate like we did in the past.
Look the energy and excitement during that Valley run
Luka out, then 2 Mavs starters ejected. Sill could not take advantage.
Damn Shazam!
KD scored 35. The other 4 starters scored 22. Not going to win games when 4 starters avg 5 points.
This team is SOFT ASF! Nurk took out 2 players for the suns and we couldnt win smh. Suns need a Pet Bev and trade Beal
Guy on right side is so annoying, screams LOOK AT MEEEEEE
The kept the new guy on the right & not Lindsey?! WTF
@@Mac2Mon and moron said Italy ocupied North pole, instead of neighbour contry Slovenia haha, what a brain
@Mac2Mon makes you wonder doesnt it? lol
Agreed. His energy is off putting af. I thought maybe I was a hater, but I could feel it even just listening to the podcast. He ruins it for me, even when Lindsey was hosting. Now without her, it’s just unwatchable
Agree
I will take the opportunity to take a shot at my local Phoenix Suns team. I do not condone violence and would like to look at this from a different vantage point. TEAM. This is microcosm of what's been happening since the Suns broke up the 2021 WCF Team. Since then it has been a bunch of individuals playing along side an alleged BIG3. Back in the day saying you are a TEAM actually meant something. Notice in the brief altercation, there were 5 Suns Players on the floor and only ONE (Bradley Beal) stepped up to the plate and tried to protect his teammate while KD (OUR FEARLES LEADER) was no where in the picture, even Dunn [OUR ROOKIE] made an attempt to separate the MAYHEM. Remember the shoving match between Grant Williams and KD, when Grant Williams played for the Mavericks, Nurk was right there in the mix and protected KD from the troubles. Why should it be any different when the shoe is on the other foot? This team is a joke and as much as I can appreciate KD as a INDVIDUAL PLAYER, he is not a TEAM FIRST Superstar. Can I digress, even the game we watch is so disheartening to where the PG can't do his job. Anyone can bring the ball down the court, but after that give it to "TurnOver-KD" and go stand in a corner and watch. That has to suck as a professional player and teammate, because it sucks to watch as a life-tong fan. You know when you have seen good basketball, and this generation of Suns ball reminds me of "The Little Rascals". Break up the "LITTLE3" and at this rate they each should have decent trade value.. I didn't want to say it, but I have no choice "START OVER THRU THE DRAFT" NO MORE SUPER TEAMS, THEY ONLY WORK WHEN YOU HAVE A FEARLESS LEADER LIKE DRAYMOND GREEN KEEPING EVERYONE IN CHECK and build from within like OKC, you know who they are, the # 1 team in the west.
Well the suns are at an opportune time to change everything causing their problems. Get rid of bud and go get Mike Brown. This teams offense is all on him and him alone. Spreading the floor and jacking up 3s isn't doing it anymore. Nobody wants to watch a team shoot a 38 percent shot all the time. It's so dreadfully boring and monotonous that the fans are sick of this offense and they're sick of watching this team.
To put things in perspective I'm going to copy a story that Danny Ainge told about his first year in Boston that comes to my mind.
“I came in the middle of the season with a really good team, so I wasn’t playing very much, and I shot the ball miserably that year,” he said.
Ainge reflected on that rookie season and spoke about just how tough it was to break in and just how tough Fitch was.
“To put it in perspective, I remember coming off screens, and like I said, I could get shots with those guys setting screens,” Ainge said. “The coach pulls me aside, Bill Fitch, and he says, ‘What do you expect to make on that shot?’
“I go, I don’t know, 52 percent.
“He goes, ‘What does he shoot?’ Points to Larry. I go, 60. ‘What does he shoot?’ He points to McHale. Sixty. It’s like, do you get my point? We don’t need 52-percent shots coming off down screens.
The teams that Bird had when he played for the Celtics revived a dying league and most of their offense came from shooting 60 percent shots with him McHale and Parish. I loved those teams much more than my own home team the Utah Jazz because it was fun to watch those guys shoot at such a high percentage.
Buds offense is horrible because it relies on spreading the floor and shooting a 38 percent shot. Nobody wants to watch this offense anymore. How many friends do i have who are sick of watching this team because they miss most of their low percentage shots. If Bud were a good coach he would have a varied offense relying on mid range, pick and roll and cutters and then the 3 point shot as a last option. Not spread the floor and shoot 3s with nothing else except charging the lane and getting stuffed and expecting a foul. That is ugly heinous shit that nobody wants to watch.
Also the guys who can get their own shots and who are mid range assassins in Booker and Durant are not being set up for success with easy shots. These guys are having to work hard to get their own mid range shots. While it is beautiful to see how they can get their own shots and make them sometimes that isn't what we brought in Tyus Jones for. We brought in Tyus to get them easy shots they wouldn't have to work for that they weren't getting last year. Tyus ain't setting these guys up because Bud's shitty offense doesn't give Tyus anything to work with in this regard and we're back to shoot 3s and the ISO shit we had going on last year.
What kills me is that it seems that the suns organization has told this podcast to not talk about the coach being the problem that he clearly is because ishbia paid this guy too much money before proving himself and now he doesn't want to lose all this money he spent in coaches.
Espo keeps saying we got another coach so that's not the problem. No espo people are not so stupid to swallow your logic here. Yes things have not changed because the owner fired a terrible coach last year and replaced him with another horrendous coach this year. You're not fooling anyone espo . Right now it's the perfect time to get rid of this trash of a coach and go out and get Mike Brown. And if ishbia isn't willing to lose the absolute stupid money he paid this clown then he better be ready to lose Durant and Booker after this season. Let him see how holding onto that stupid coach who only played high school basketball and wasn't even a star there screws up his bonafide players who deserve to be paid.
Espo, Nurkic doesn’t represent us bro
1:04:13 Luka was WCF mvp lol
If KD hadn’t joined a team that was already built to win championships he’d have 0 rings. Very talented player but not a winner without Curry.
You’re putting this on KD when he literally is the only one that has showed up for the most part of the season. KD got hurt and they get couldn’t win one game, not 1.
@ Not putting anything on KD he’s been probly the main reason for that team winning when he plays. I’m just saying the guy isn’t winning any championships unless he chose that ready made dynasty that would have still won even if KD wasn’t there. Curry Klay and Draymond would have 4 rings if KD never joined.
What's the mega million number while ur predicting 😅😅😅
@@rodpayne2957 Only thing I can predict is that KD and the suns go out quick and easy in the playoffs. Take that to the bank.
@DrivingandDelivering 😆 what a contradiction
How times have changed! We spent years blaming a former center for everything wrong. We wanted change because we didn’t win a championship in two years after being hot trash for years!!
I don’t feel bad for KD… look what happened in Brooklyn.
This isn’t a “ team “ something is broken in the looker room and can’t blame DA/vogel
This isn’t a fun team because the roster keeps flipping so we can’t relate like we did in the past.
Look the energy and excitement during that Valley run